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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 3h
Before he was a Congressional candidate in Tennessee’s 9th District, Justin J. Pearson worked as an organizer in 2021 to stop a pipeline through a Black neighborhood in Southwest Memphis. Listen to the story here: www.trainingforchange.org/craft-of-cam...
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Craft of Campaigns S1E9
Craft of Campaigns S1E9
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 4h
“Two types of corruption often emerge in authoritarian states: enriching corruption and entrenching corruption. Enriching corruption directly benefits the autocrat, while entrenching corruption is primarily designed to keep them in power.” @protectdemocracy.org protectdemocracy.org/work/preside...
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President Trump’s corruption, explained
The president’s corruption can be directly connected to his election interference efforts, and his broader work to consolidate power.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 5h
“…there are a lot of people, even in rural, what we would consider to be red areas, that are really upset with what's happening in this country.” Watch a short video about the small street corner protests taking place in rural North Carolina here: youtube.com/@CivilResistance/videos
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 29/09/2026
“Organized labor has a broad base, a track record of major wins and the power to shut down the economy. And make no mistake: Economic leverage is a necessary ingredient in the struggle to bring down companies as profitable as those in the fossil fuel industry.” wagingnonviolence.org/2026/09/clim...
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What the climate movement can learn from organized labor
The climate movement needs the leverage that comes from a strike shutting down the economy — and it can only get there through deep organizing with workers.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 29/09/2026
“Food insecurity in 2026 North Carolina is a vexing and complicated problem, but any meaningful effort to address it…must involve restoring, and ultimately, dramatically increasing federal funding for SNAP & similar programs.” @robschofield.bsky.social @ncnewsline.com ncnewsline.com/2026/09/15/s...
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Commentary: Some inconvenient truths about an inconvenient subject • NC Newsline
Food insecurity in 2026 North Carolina is a vexing and complicated problem, but any meaningful effort to address it simply must involve restoring, and ultimately, dramatically increasing federal fundi...
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 29/09/2026
It's disheartening that Trump's party will likely lose ground in the next election not because of his endless war of choice, or because he is systematically destroying our democracy, or because he is presiding over the most corrupt regime in history, but because gas prices are too high.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 28/09/2026
“What propels our organizing work right now is this premise: there is no path to restoring democracy in the U.S. that does not run through our rural, Republican–dominated region.” @forgeorganizing.bsky.social forgeorganizing.org/article/how-...
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 28/09/2026
I can remember when "buying an election" was a pejorative term.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 28/09/2026
“The problem is that movements today face increasingly sophisticated opponents while often lacking access to the strategic knowledge and training necessary to meaningfully shift power.” @wagingnonviolence.org wagingnonviolence.org/aei/2026/07/...
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Democratizing training for nonviolent resistance
This month, the Albert Einstein Institution launches a new People-Powered Training Platform.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 28/09/2026
Thanks in part to the aggressive foreign policy of this regime, we no longer live in a world where there are rules for how countries behave. Under jungle law, might makes right and to the victor go the spoils. As wars proliferate, the only winners will be the weapons manufacturers.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 27/09/2026
"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end.…The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ---George Orwell, “1984”
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 27/09/2026
Our trillion dollar-plus military budget is one reason why Medicare For All would be just too darned expensive.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 27/09/2026
“The organized opposition to data centers builds on a wave of popular fury with the AI industry and its massive footprint, unlike almost anything in recent U.S. history.” @nickengelfried.bsky.social wagingnonviolence.org/2026/06/the-...
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The data center backlash that’s uniting America
The passage of New York's statewide moratorium marks the speed at which the movement is growing and winning in both blue and red parts of the country.
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Dariel Garner @darielgarner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Buffalo Puppets, Stolen Neighbors Quilt, Kennedy Center Protest & Free Press Resists Resisting everywhere! Thanks to our editor @riverasun.bsky.social nonviolencenews.org/2026/09/26/s...
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 26/09/2026
How about working on the war you started?
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 26/09/2026
#Partriarchy
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 26/09/2026
The ultimate solution to autocracy, both here & around the world, is a strong, organized, unified civil society. That's why job number one for dictators is to attack independent institutions.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 26/09/2026
“We should not depend on the November midterm elections to provide us with any solutions to this problem. We should have contingency plans in the event that there are not free and fair elections.” wagingnonviolence.org/2026/05/may-...
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May Day was even more important than you think
The mass mobilization on May Day was a show of power — and a dress rehearsal of the tactics it takes to win against an authoritarian regime.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 25/09/2026
“North Carolina’s small towns and rural communities matter. We work here, we live here, and we are raising our families here. That’s why we, poor and working people, are building power across race to make sure that our elected officials work for us.” downhomenc.org
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Down Home North Carolina
Down Home North Carolina is building power with poor and working-class people in North Carolina’s small towns and rural communities.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 25/09/2026
“By focusing on care and constructive community support, regular people can engage in lower-risk resistance that involves doing profoundly reasonable activities to help their neighbors.” @convergencemag.com convergencemag.com/articles/how...
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How Parallel Institutions Challenge Authoritarianism
By directly meeting the needs of the people, parallel institutions expose government inadequacies and provide a vision for the future.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 25/09/2026
“The authoritarian strategy relies on a particular theory: Repress, and people will get smaller. They will hide. They will stop. That’s not what’s happening here. Folks are getting bigger.” @wagingnonviolence.org wagingnonviolence.org/2026/06/trum...
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Trump’s repression of dissent is backfiring
Millions of people are finding meaningful ways to resist despite the Trump’s attempts to quell dissent and tilt the playing field.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 24/09/2026
I wonder if anyone is keeping a database of this administration's crimes. They'll get away with most of them, but it would be nice to at least have a record for historians.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 24/09/2026
In the long run, every act of resistance counts, no matter how small.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 24/09/2026
“Donald Trump has a fundamental problem: He doesn’t understand humanity. He believes domination results in submission.” @wagingnonviolence.org wagingnonviolence.org/2026/06/trum...
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Trump’s repression of dissent is backfiring
Millions of people are finding meaningful ways to resist despite the Trump’s attempts to quell dissent and tilt the playing field.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 24/09/2026
This is the Trump administration delivering a message: nothing is true. You can't believe anything you see or hear. This is how fascists warp reality. If nothing is true, everything is permitted…
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 24/09/2026
“According to the most recent USDA data – which actually predates the rampant inflation of 2026 – more than 1.5 million North Carolinians, including one of every five children and teens – lived in a 'food insecure' home.” @robschofield.bsky.social @ncnewsline.com ncnewsline.com/2026/09/15/s...
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Commentary: Some inconvenient truths about an inconvenient subject • NC Newsline
Food insecurity in 2026 North Carolina is a vexing and complicated problem, but any meaningful effort to address it simply must involve restoring, and ultimately, dramatically increasing federal fundi...
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 23/09/2026
“According to Americans for Tax Fairness analysis, 100 billionaire families spent a staggering $2.6 billion, or 16.5 percent of total political contributions in 2024.” @inequality.org inequality.org/facts/wealth...
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Wealth Inequality - Inequality.org
The United States exhibits has more inequality and disparities of wealth between rich and poor than any other major developed nation.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 23/09/2026
This is a simplified diagram of blocs that contend for influence in the US. Civil society is the weakest, which is bad for democracy and the future of the world. But the untapped potential of "people power" is enormous if we train, organize, unite, resist and build.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 23/09/2026
“Recently, the defense filed a motion that revealed the existence of Operation Puppet Master, a program to surveil and investigate Twin Cities labor unions, churches and community groups in advance of the filing of criminal charges.” @shaneburley.bsky.social wagingnonviolence.org/2026/08/defe...
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The movement to defend the Minneapolis 15
In a case with sweeping implications, supporters are fighting hard to defend the Minneapolis organizers singled out for resisting ICE.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 22/09/2026
“Many movements, like women’s suffrage and marriage equality, spread city to city and state to state before changing national policy.” @wagingnonviolence.org wagingnonviolence.org/2026/09/chan...
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Making change from the dirt up
An Arizona community’s plan to reuse an invasive weed to construct low-income housing shows that when we can't pressure the top, we can build from below.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 22/09/2026
“When these homes are sold to private buyers, the quality of care goes down and the costs for families go up as the corporations who have purchased them squeeze out every last dollar of profit.” @gwenfulton.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Don't Let Them Take What's Ours
From urban Minneapolis to rural Wisconsin, working class people are organizing to protect public goods from private buyers
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 22/09/2026
Healthcare is a human right. Safe, affordable housing is a human right. Nutritious food is a human right. Are these values your representatives & their corporate donors stand for? If not, they need to hear from you.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 21/09/2026
“One of the most inspiring aspects of this global effort to uplift nonviolent solutions is the recognition that these ideas show that another world is possible.” @laprogressive.bsky.social @riverasun.bsky.social www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peac...
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Nonviolent Solutions Are Everywhere — And They’re Already Working
From restorative justice and peacebuilding to climate action and civil resistance, communities around the world are proving that violence is not the only option.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 21/09/2026
On this day in 1976: I was living in D.C. when Letelier was murdered, so I was able to participate in an emotional protest funeral march that changed my young life. “A feeling of power and destiny washed over me, as what seemed like a great truth revealed itself.” fragmentsweb.org/stories/lete...
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The Funeral of Orlando Letelier - Fragments
Striking at the heart of power Orlando Letelier was assassinated in Washington, D.C. by DINA, the secret police organization of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. These are my impressions of the funer...
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 21/09/2026
“A coalition of community groups is leading an embargo campaign in New York City’s John F. Kennedy Airport, where dangerous explosives and F-35 bomber components bound for Israel have passed through the same runways as passenger flights.” @wagingnonviolence.org wagingnonviolence.org/2026/09/us-c...
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US communities are organizing to end complicity with genocide in their backyards
As the genocide in Gaza nears its fourth year, communities across the U.S. are pressuring local governments to break the supply chain of weapons to Israel.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 20/09/2026
Successful movements require skilled activists. “Grounded in decades of research on nonviolent resistance, these modules include exercises to help you plan, reflect, and act more effectively.” training.aeinstein.org
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 20/09/2026
“The authoritarian strategy relies on a particular theory: Repress, & people will get smaller. They will hide. They will stop. That’s not what’s happening here. Folks are getting bigger.” @wagingnonviolence.org wagingnonviolence.org/2026/06/trum...
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Trump’s repression of dissent is backfiring
Millions of people are finding meaningful ways to resist despite the Trump’s attempts to quell dissent and tilt the playing field.
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National Nurses United @nationalnurses.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Whether it is unchecked A.I. replacing nurses, hospital execs pulling 8-figure salaries while patients crowdfund their care, or people rationing insulin while big pharma posts record profits; this isn't left vs right. It's the ultra-wealthy vs everyone else.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 19/09/2026
#1%
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 19/09/2026
If North Carolina's cities are “blood-soaked killing fields” as Trump recently claimed, I blame the Republican-controlled NC Senate, the Republican-controlled NC House of Representatives and the Republican-controlled courts. @chenkel.bsky.social @ncnewsline.com ncnewsline.com/2026/09/17/g...
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Gov. Stein: Trump 'flat out wrong' about NC crime  • NC Newsline
A day after President Donald Trump delivered a grim campaign speech in Gastonia, Gov. Josh Stein described Trump's categorization of North Carolina as "political nonsense."
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 19/09/2026
“Parallel institutions offer a low-risk pathway to organize to do more, employing already familiar skills in peaceful ways that help keep our neighbors safe.” @convergencemag.com convergencemag.com/articles/how...
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How Parallel Institutions Challenge Authoritarianism
By directly meeting the needs of the people, parallel institutions expose government inadequacies and provide a vision for the future.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 18/09/2026
“The level of surveillance was shockingly broad: Homeland Security Investigations had near carte blanche to categorize almost any organization that could oppose sweeping deportation arrests as potentially criminal.” @shaneburley.bsky.social wagingnonviolence.org/2026/08/defe...
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The movement to defend the Minneapolis 15
In a case with sweeping implications, supporters are fighting hard to defend the Minneapolis organizers singled out for resisting ICE.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 18/09/2026
We must not mistake technological progress for human progress.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 18/09/2026
“More than 12% of North Carolinians live below the absurdly low official poverty line. When one looks at what it really takes to get by, the number of folks in need is vastly higher.” @robschofield.bsky.social @ncnewsline.com ncnewsline.com/2026/09/15/s...
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Some inconvenient truths about an inconvenient subject • NC Newsline
Food insecurity in 2026 North Carolina is a vexing and complicated problem, but any meaningful effort to address it simply must involve restoring, and ultimately, dramatically increasing federal fundi...
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 17/09/2026
“But still, the many county boards are putting the nursing homes up for sale. Why? Because for two whole generations now we’ve been told that public goods are no good at all.” @gwenfulton.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Don't Let Them Take What's Ours
From urban Minneapolis to rural Wisconsin, working class people are organizing to protect public goods from private buyers
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 17/09/2026
“The organized opposition to data centers builds on a wave of popular fury with the AI industry and its massive footprint, unlike almost anything in recent U.S. history.” @nickengelfried.bsky.social @wagingnonviolence.org wagingnonviolence.org/2026/06/the-...
wagingnonviolence.org
The data center backlash that’s uniting America
The passage of New York's statewide moratorium marks the speed at which the movement is growing and winning in both blue and red parts of the country.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 17/09/2026
“Over the past three decades, America’s most affluent families have added to their net worth, while those on the bottom have dipped into “negative wealth,” meaning the value of their debts exceeds the value of their assets…” @inequality.org inequality.org/facts/wealth...
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Jonathan Smucker @jonathansmucker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Happy 15th birthday, #OccupyWallStreet, the movement that introduced the 99% vs. the one percent and set the stage for the still unfolding insurgency within the Democratic Party—an insurgency that's making big advances in 2026. My piece for the 10-year anniversary: theintercept.com/2021/09/17/o...
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Happy Birthday, Occupy Wall Street
Ten years later, the Democratic Party ignores Occupy Wall Street’s warnings at its own peril.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 16/09/2026
Scenario: Two weeks before the midterms ICE goons fire into a crowd of peaceful protesters, killing a dozen people. Riots break out all over the country. Trump declares martial law & cancels the elections. Lesson: STAY PEACEFUL no matter what, and don't be deceived by agents provocateurs.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 16/09/2026
About time. It's been several years since the billionaire minimum wage was raised. They're struggling with inflation too…
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